I’ve seen several stories cross my desk in the last few days like this one from North Dakota—Lutheran Social Services trying to dispel “rumors” that local/state taxpayers are on the hook for refugees placed in their towns and cities.

The Lutherans are trying to get their hooks into Wyoming. Could that be the motivation for this campaign!

Fargo, N.D. (WDAY TV) -It’s a number that may surprise you. Every year,400 some refugees make their way to North Dakota.

I love it how they leave the impression that these Africans/Middle Easterners/Asians etc. just “make their way” to a place like North Dakota—they are in North Dakota because Lutheran Social Services has a lucrative contract with the US State Department (federal taxpayers!) to bring them there and drop them off!

Tonight, Lutheran Social Services held a forum at Fargo Public Library to educate people on refugee integration into the community.

Event organizers say they wanted to dispel the rumors that local tax payers are footing the bill for new Americans.

Of course, some of the cost of refugees rests with local taxpayers! Who else is paying for the education of the refugee kids but local taxpayers, not to mention the costs to local health clinics and the demand put on local subsidized housing that would normally be available to American low-income citizens.

And, let’s not forget the cost to local police and county court systems when refugees break the law. Here is just one case—Somali mass murder in North Dakota—that you know cost local taxpayers a bundle and presumably will cost North Dakota a bundle for his incarceration.

Readers might want to visit this breakdownof the costs of refugees in Georgia showing the federal and state share of the cost (prepared by Refugee Resettlement Relief). North Dakotans should be asking their state legislature for a similar accounting.

WDAY.TV continued:

Instead, they say, Social Services offers a federally funded program to help refugees.

The tax dollars pays for these Refugees! It is a hardship on the whole community, schools, interperters, low income utilities, more water “this is a big issue in CA”. police, courts, Welfare, food stamps. They are demanding better housing, Muslim laws/ The Mosque are beautiful! who pays for these buildings? Many of these refugees are on S.S and Medicare and they didn’t work and pay into the system. I watched a Congressman state that if they are here legally they are entitled to S.S amd Medicare. Refugees and illegals are a hard ship on everyone. The fraud alone would balance the budget in CA.